burial at sea

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• Burial at sea — for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943 Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed… …   Wikipedia

• burial at sea — phrase a funeral ceremony that takes place on a ship, in which the dead person’s body is dropped into the sea Thesaurus: funerals and burialhyponym Main entry: burial …   Useful english dictionary

• burial at sea — Interment at sea under exigency or at direction of person having right of burial. 22 Am J2d Dead B § 13 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• burial at sea — a funeral ceremony that takes place on a ship, in which the dead person s body is dropped into the sea …   English dictionary

• Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… …   Wikipedia

• burial — bur|i|al [ beriəl ] noun * count or uncount the process of putting a dead body into a GRAVE in the ground at a funeral: The family chose cremation rather than burial. burial rites a burial mound a. uncount the act of burying something in the… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• burial — Synonyms and related words: baptism, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial at sea, burial chamber, burial customs, burial mound, burying, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, clouding, concealedness, concealment,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• burial */ — UK [ˈberɪəl] / US noun Word forms burial : singular burial plural burials 1) [countable/uncountable] the process of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground at a funeral The family chose cremation rather than burial. burial rites a burial… …   English dictionary

• sea burial — See burial at sea …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• burial — /ber ee euhl/, n. 1. the act or ceremony of burying. 2. the place of burying; grave. [1200 50; BURY + AL2; r. ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place, equiv. to byrg(an) to BURY + els n. suffix; cf. RIDDLE1] * * * Ritual disposal… …   Universalium

• burial — n. a burial takes place (the burial took place at sea) * * * [ berɪəl] a burial takes place (the burial took place at sea) …   Combinatory dictionary